The latest articles on DEV Community by Vasilis Baimas (@vbaimas). https://dev.to/vbaimas https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F109966%2Fdb9bf5d0-9c4e-423b-81a2-026d559a86a0.jpeg https://dev.to/vbaimas en Vasilis Baimas Wed, 18 Sep 2019 09:43:26 +0000 https://dev.to/vbaimas/retrieve-the-permalink-for-a-page-and-post-type-l4 https://dev.to/vbaimas/retrieve-the-permalink-for-a-page-and-post-type-l4 <p>Do you know that the WordPress have some useful functions to link page and archive page? Let's see them in action.</p> <p><strong>Scenario :</strong> <br> You would normally grab a page link via its ID but in the case that you had a localhost which install and an online install the ID was different, how you can link the page?</p> <h2> Get the permalink for a page by title </h2> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>&lt;a href="&lt;?php echo get_permalink( get_page_by_title( 'about' ) ); ?&gt;"&gt;About Me&lt;/a&gt; </code></pre></div> <h2> Get the permalink for a page by name </h2> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>&lt;a href="&lt;?php echo get_permalink( get_page_by_path( 'About' ) ) ?&gt;"&gt;About Me&lt;/a&gt; </code></pre></div> <h2> Get the permalink for a page by slug </h2> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>&lt;a href="&lt;?php echo get_permalink( get_page_by_path( 'about' ) ); ?&gt;"&gt;About Me&lt;/a&gt; </code></pre></div> <h2> Get the permalink for a page by parent/child </h2> <p><strong>Scenario :</strong> <br> If you want to get the permalink using the method with child-page, then you need to pass the full slug. So, in this case we have a child page "about" with a parent pages which called "skills".<br> </p> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>&lt;a href="&lt;?php echo get_permalink( get_page_by_path( 'about/skills' ) ) ?&gt;"&gt;Skills&lt;/a </code></pre></div> <h2> Get the link to custom post type archive page </h2> <p><strong>Scenario :</strong> <br> If you have a custom posts loop and in the bottom you want to add "View all" link, then how you should lead to the page with all posts that type?<br> </p> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight plaintext"><code> &lt;a href="&lt;?php echo get_post_type_archive_link ( 'your_post_type' ) ?&gt;"&lt;/a&gt; </code></pre></div> <p><em><strong>Note:</strong></em><br> In case that <code>get_post_type_archive_link()</code> returns <code>false</code>, make sure that you have used the argument <code>has_archive =&gt; true</code> when using <code>register_post_type()</code>.</p> wordpress development permalinks